Dr. Gagner in Discover, January 2001!/crosspost

[Guest guest]

Hi, everyone -- My esteemed surgeon, Dr. Michel Gagner made it into the

January 2001 issue of Discover magazine (100 Top Science Stories of 2001).

He's on page 42 (the article is called: " I See, I Cut, I Sew and discusses

Dr. Gagner and his Canadian colleague Dr. Jacques Marescaux's long distance

lap operation). In starts by saying 'On September 7, Jacques Marescaux and

Michel Gagner became the Lindberghs of the medical world. hands on

joysticks and eyes glued to video monitors, these doctors at Mount Sinai

Medical Center in New York City used telesurgery to remove the gallbladder of

a 68-year-old woman lying on an operating table in Strasbourg, France.

This first transatlantic operation combined two other remarkable medical

technologies: laparoscopy and robotic surgery.... "

Unfortunately the accompanying pic just shows the back of his head (of

course, he's intently focusing on the screen and doesn't give a hoot about

the photo shoot ROFL).

Check it out! You can view it online at:

http://www.discover.com/jan_02/gthere.html?article=medicine.html

They have a pretty cool web version of the mag there!

all the best,

lap ds with gallbladder removal

January 25, 2001

Dr. Gagner/mt. Sinai/NYC

10 months post-op and still feelin' fabu

preop: 307 lbs/bmi 45

now: 194 lbs/bmi 28/size sweet 16 but squeezin' into a 14! LOL